Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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The Downside of Victorian York
Behind the genteel, historic charact...
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Anglo Saxon
What sort of York emerged after the...
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Norman Reconstruction
William stayed in York in Christmas...
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Anglian York
Anglo-Saxons were living in and arou...
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Cars and Consumers
Like most cities in the Western worl...
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Tudor/Stuart
The arrival of the Tudors in 1485, w...
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Medieval
York was a dangerous, intriguing, co...
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Early Christian York
In 601, Pope Gregory decided to se...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- A Pipkin
- Saints and Prophets Statues from St. Marys Abbey
- The Debtors' Prison
- Priory Church of the Holy Trinity
- The Mystery Plays
- John Carr - Architect
- The Other Castle: Baile Hill
- The Battle of the Standard
- The Norman Castle
- Shackleton's Tin of Rowntree's Cocoa
- A New University
- New Shopping Centres
- The Minster in the 20th Century
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- The Victorian Prison Building
- The Retreat
- Skeldergate Bridge